Handle for sheet-metal vessels



(No Model.)

0. D. HALL & G. H. LENNON. HANDLE FOR SHEET METAL VESSELS.

No. 600,689. Patented Mar. 15,1898.

WITNESSEE-al INVENT'URE! ,ATTDRNEY- llnrrnn STATES PATENT CARY D. HALL AND GEORGE H. LENNON, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

HANDLE FOR SHEET-METAL VESSELS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 600,689, dated March 15, 1898.

Application filed May 5, 1897. Serial No. 635,128. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, CARY D. HALL and GEORGE H. LENNON, citizens of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Handles for Sheet-Metal Vessels, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved handle for sheet-metal vessels.

A handle constructed in accordancewith our invention will first be described, and the invention then pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of our improved handle. Fig. 2 is a view showing the handle partly in section. Fig. 3 shows two views of one ear of the handle. Fig. 4. shows the metal tube that is used. Fig. 5 shows the position of one end of the metal tube in one ear as it is previous to closing the joint which unites the end and ear.

Referring to the drawings, two metal cars A are employed. A metal tube B has its ends connected with said two ears by an interlocked joint, and a wood handle or grip part 0 surrounds the said tube and is interposed between the two ears. Each ear has a lateral flange (Z, by which it may be attached to a vessel-such as a wash-boiler, meat-boiler, pan, &c. At that part of the ear farthest from the said flange we make a hole 6, with a slight flange e surrounding it. (See Figs. 3 and 5.) A suitable metal tube B, which in this instance is formed of sheet metal merely rolled, having an open slit f longitudinally, has one end inserted through the said hole 6 in one ear and the other end inserted through the hole in the other ear. The slight flange 6 around the hole projects in the same direction as the end of the tube, as shown in Fig. 5. The wood handle 0 is bored, so as to slip over the tube before the ends of the latter are inserted through the holes of the ears. This wood handle around the tube is interposed between the two ears, the ears being abutted close against the ends of the handle. When the parts are assembled in this position, the extremities of the tube and the flanges e, which fit close around the tube, are both coiled together and thereby formed into an interlocked joint or seam, as at g in Fig. 2. This coiled joint tightly connects each ear to one end of the tube, and thus the tube serves to unite the wood handle and the two ears. When thus made, the-handle is strong, sightly in appearance, and cheap to produce.

We contemplate making the handle without the wood part O,but otherwise constructed as shown and described. I11 this case the two ears would be connected with the ends of the metal by the interlocked joint, as shown, and the metal tube would serve as the handle or grip part.

Of course the size of the metal tube may be varied to suit the views of the manufacturer and likewise the shape of the wood handle,

our invention not being limited to any such details.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim is 1. A handle having in combination two metal ears for attachment to a vessel, each ear having a hole with a flange surrounding it; and a metal tube having each end inserted through the said hole in one of the ears and the end of the tube and the flange surrounding the hole both coiled together into an interlocked joint, as set forth.

2. A handle having in combination two metal ears for attachment to a vessel, each ear having a hole with a flange surrounding it; a wood hand-grip interposed between the two ears with its ends abutting against them; and a metal tube extending through the wood hand grip and having each end inserted through the said hole in one of the ears and the end of the tube and the flange surrounding the hole both coiled together into an interlocked joint, as set forth.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

CARY D. HALL. GEORGE H. LENNON.

Witnesses:

CHARLES B. MANN, Jr., OHAPIN A. FERGUSON. 

